Digitalization and automation of manufacturing processes in recent years have driven the convergence of IT and OT. One of the biggest advantages of this is new ways to aggregate data. New technologies and concepts like the IIoT and analytics, among other things, allow for the collection and analysis of more data than ever before. This in turn drives decision-making and other concepts like preventive and predictive maintenance. However, many machines and devices on the factory floor are too old to support these new data collection scenarios; they simply do not provide the right connectivity, data interfaces, or data points that are required.
Operational technology (OT) implements solutions for automation tasks. Controllers typically produce large amounts of process and machine data that can be used for monitoring and optimization at the IT level. In many cases, users can benefit from condition monitoring in their plants.
I'd like to say that our PRTG Network Monitor software is a very robust and reliable piece of software. We have a large, highly professional in-house testing team that puts every software customization through its paces independently of the developers before changes are made available to you productively in our stable release channel.
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Besides the goal of providing our users with reliable uptime and a full overview of their IT, OT and IoT systems, we at Paessler have made it our mission to reduce resource consumption together with our customers. Certain companies have already shown through great use cases not only in how they use PRTG to monitor their sometimes very complex systems, but also how they manage to fulfill this particular purpose and reduce their resource consumption. Here is the fourth use case of this series. Enjoy!
As an IT Admin, we know that managing a network of any size can go between fun and not fun. Everything depends on the tools we use to support our daily business. The strong partnership between Paessler and baramundi allows you to manage and monitor network infrastructure easily. Together, baramundi and PRTG create a secure, reliable, and powerful IT infrastructure where you have everything under control - from the traffic through your firewall to the configuration of your clients. In this article, I will briefly give you insights into unified endpoint management with baramundi and I will show you how you can monitor your baramundi server, endpoints, and jobs with PRTG.
IT is the foundation of your business and monitoring is the insurance for your IT. Especially for large IT environments, monitoring is a vital but complex task.
Digitalization has been driving change in industrial IT in recent years. Data from the machine and automation level has become more relevant for the entire enterprise, and so machines have become more connected. This has an impact on how you monitor industrial environments.
Besides the goal of providing our users with reliable uptime and a full overview of their IT, OT and IoT systems, we at Paessler have made it our mission to reduce resource consumption together with our customers. Certain companies have already shown through great use cases not only in how they use PRTG to monitor their sometimes very complex systems, but also how they manage to fulfill this particular purpose and reduce their resource consumption. Here is the third use case of this series. Enjoy!
With the rise of Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0, industrial IT is developing fast, and with it the possibility to monitor the condition of the production equipment in a factory.
Besides the goal of providing our users with reliable uptime and a full overview of their IT, OT and IoT systems, we at Paessler have made it our mission to reduce resource consumption together with our customers. Certain companies have already shown through great use cases not only in how they use PRTG to monitor their sometimes very complex systems, but also how they manage to fulfill this particular purpose and reduce their resource consumption. Here is the second use case of this series. Enjoy!
…and lots of other interesting stuff! PRTG release 21.2.68 has been available in the stable release channel for a few days. With this version you can login to PRTG via Single Sign-On (SSO) using Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) asthe SSO provider. The latest version also includes the new experimental REST Custom v2 sensor and various other news and improvements.
We at Paessler have a dream! We have a dream that one day...Okay, let's not make it so dramatic. Thing is: Besides the goal of providing our users with reliable uptime and a full overview of their IT, OT and IoT systems, we have made it our mission to reduce resource consumption together with our customers. It is our belief that monitoring has an essential role to play in reducing the consumption of resources by mankind, and our customers can do exactly this with monitoring data. Certain companies have already shown through great use cases not only in how they use PRTG to monitor their sometimes very complex systems, but also how they manage to fulfill this particular purpose and reduce their resource consumption. Here is the first use case of this series. Enjoy!
Thomas Gray’s famous line "ignorance is bliss" neatly sums up most users’ attitude to what happens in the murky corners of the IT department, and rightly so. As long as the blinkenlights are flashing, the noisy fans are whirring and business services are available, then all is good in meatspace.
We at Paessler believe monitoring plays a vital part in reducing humankind's consumption of resources. Monitoring data helps our customers save resources, from optimizing their IT, OT and IoT infrastructures, to reducing energy consumption or emissions. This topic defines the "why" in "why we do our everyday business", and in July 2020, we made it our official company purpose (here is the official site for all the correlating information). This is the first article on our blog that explains how this company purpose came to life and how it influences our vision of where we at Paessler are headed.